In the immortal words of Jeff Sessions:

“Well, first you look at the Constitution as a whole…The Constitution says you can’t inflict cruel and unusual punishment. Well, every state had the death penalty. It wasn’t unusual. It has to be both.”

… This is a United States senator. He has no fucking clue about what is in the constitution, apparently.

(The GOP is still contorting over the Thurgood Marshall thing. It’s a day out, and nobody has been able to cite a single case typifying Marshall’s “activism”.)

Just so it’s perfectly clear: Not. One. Case.